Ferris Bueller's Half Day

I played hooky today. I requested to leave at noon and I did personal errands. I needed to get out of the house and just get away from everything.

I am overloaded and I am tired of being overloaded.  I had a package to send to Corinne for her birthday and I got it out this afternoon. I thought I had mailing envelopes that would fit but I didn't.  I had to throw everything in a bag and find a mailing envelope on the way to the post office this afternoon.  There is probably one around here but I can't find it.  That's how messed up things are.

Once a month, we get asked to sit in on a meeting with the attorneys and paralegals and most of it us about them.  It's not a bad thing.  We do get asked if we have anything to add, this is the part that makes me angry.  Every time Regina interrupts me and talks over me.  Why bother?  The Thinker is supposed to be in the meeting but she has skipped the last two meetings and was rather blase about it.  Asked me about it but felt that she didn't have to show up.  Today, I needed a break from that.  Show up.  Don't show up.  See you next month if you show up because I'll be there and I'm sure I can count on Regina to interrupt me.

I do what I'm told and I'm tired of the attitude of I'm not going to do that.  I was a bit annoyed with the Thinker for commenting on my taking off.  I fibbed to shame her.  It's nobody's business why I take off and for what reason.  I like the thinker and the lurker but they're both about 25 plus years younger than me and may not always have the most mature attitude at times.  And the others?  Don't get me started.

There's still no word from the lurker. I thought we were going to find out something but instead we got another shock.  Someone filled out a yes to witnessing retribution on a survey.  Is Trump part of our group now?  Initially I wondered if it was Regina, but I got a funny feeling it was the diva.  She has quite the imagination and somehow I see her answering the question that way.  I thought thanks for wasting 20 minutes of my time, diva.  Ugh

I did do a lot of Shopkicking with my errands and got my first $5 for the week.  It's looking better. I did wind up at Metro Market that seemed to help me get to my goal.  There's a Walgreens nearby and I have noticed that homeless people seem to gravitate there.  Someone in an orange sweatshirt came towards me as I scurried in and I didn't expect this person to walk in.  I was back by cosmetics and I could see the guy approach others.  Kind of made me nervous and I thought I got to figure out the best way to exit.  

I exited when a guy came out who was getting approached and I could see another guy coming towards them in the parking lot.  That's not a parking lot I would want to park at.  I have brushed off people looking for money.  I did it at Target in West Milwaukee on Sunday.  I think the guy coming into the store worried me.

There was a guy yelling Gimme money one night outside of a Walgreens in my neighborhood at everyone that walked past.  It was still light out and I hesitated about going in but I thought Oh, why not and when he did it to me I yelled the same back at him.  Kind of surprised him and he wasn't there when I left.  There's an old Paul Newman movie where he handles a crazy guy with a knife by acting crazy. I don't recommend doing the same in any situation but at that moment, it worked.  I just pretend I can't hear people or walk fast.

I got Charlotte a book for Easter and maybe she'll throw it in the garbage.  It's a Charlie Brown book for Easter.  I thought of this book my sister and I had as kids that we loved.  I realize Charlie Brown and Snoopy might not be her jam but it was such a pretty book.  I hope she likes it.  If not I'll buy it back from her.

I still have plenty of days to take off.  It was just a half day I needed to get away from being overloaded and to get some things down.  I finally put up my last Where's Tom Tiffany sticker on the side of a bus shelter outside of CVS.  It had a poster for Crime Stoppers. I forgot to take picture.  Got a feeling it'll be there next week.